From b6c0518b9dbbada7282291e811f3dacfc488ef27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giovanni Cardone <cardoneg@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:08:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] use default app font

---
 src/magicgui/backends/_qtpy/widgets.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/magicgui/backends/_qtpy/widgets.py b/src/magicgui/backends/_qtpy/widgets.py
index 3524a8c5..939ed3a8 100644
--- a/src/magicgui/backends/_qtpy/widgets.py
+++ b/src/magicgui/backends/_qtpy/widgets.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 from qtpy import QtWidgets as QtW
 from qtpy.QtCore import QEvent, QObject, QSize, Qt, Signal
 from qtpy.QtGui import (
-    QFont,
     QFontMetrics,
     QIcon,
     QImage,
@@ -1358,7 +1357,8 @@ def get_text_width(text: str) -> int:
         doc.setHtml(text)
         return math.ceil(doc.size().width())
     else:
-        fm = QFontMetrics(QFont("", 0))
+        font = QtW.QApplication.font()
+        fm = QFontMetrics(font)
         return fm.boundingRect(text).width() + 5